Pu Meng

Graduate Success Fellow

Graduate Professional Assistant

Language Documentation, Language Acquisition and Cognitive Processes, TESOL, Tense and Aspect, Dialect Studies

Pu Meng is a current Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Program. Her areas of interest include language documentation, language acquisition and cognitive processes, tense and aspect, and dialect studies. She is currently researching tense and aspect in the Weifang dialect of Mandarin, comparing these markers with those in the standard language, while also contributing to the documentation of this variety. She is particularly interested in how tense and aspect are expressed across different dialects, and how these forms interact with cognition and language acquisition processes. She is also interested in comparative studies across English, French, Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese languages.

Selected Publications

Meng, P., Woodrose Schwartz, S. L. R., & Wulf, D. J. (2025). Tense and aspect in Weifang. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 19). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Education

2022 - M.A., (Graduated with Highest Distinction; Ranked 1st in Class) English: Linguistics, Harbin Normal University

2019 - B.A., (Graduated with Highest Distinction; Ranked 1st in Class) English: Linguistics, Literature, Medical English, Shandong Second Medical University

Recent Presentations

Pu, M. (2025, June). Tense and Aspect in Weifang. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference 2025 (LELPGC25), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Pu, M. (2025, Apr.). Tense and Aspect in Weifang. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC 2025), Lexington, Kentucky.

Pu, M. (2025, Mar.). Tense and Aspect in Weifang. Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 19), University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

Pu, M. (2025, Mar.). Tense and Aspect in Weifang. International Symposium on Interlanguage and Learner Languages (ILL 17), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

Pu, M. (2025, Feb.). Tense and Aspect in Weifang. Texas Linguistics Society Conference (TLS 2025), Austin, Texas.

Pu, M. (2024, Aug.). French Article Learning for Adult Second Language Acquisition: Diagnostics and Mnemonics. PAAL International Conference 2024, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

Pu, M. (2024, Mar.). Radical and Word Entanglements: Take “女” as an Example. LAL 2024, Poznań, Poland.